Sony buys Bungie

[Demon_skeith]

Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced it will acquire Destiny developer Bungie for $3.6 Billion.

GamesIndustry.Biz reports that following the deal, Bungie will be run as "an independent subsidiary" of SIE, and will remain a multiplatform studio with the option to "self-publish and reach players where they choose to play."

Thoughts on this?

 

[Uncrowned]

Bungie has been fairly direct that they will remain independent and multiplatform (granted multiplatform doesn't need to include Xbox) so I am fairly happy with the deal. For a studio that has "escaped" from under Microsoft and Activision, I'd assume that they know how to properly set up their deals and hopefully I can keep playing Destiny on PC.

Overall, Bungie does need funding for most of their work, and being fully independent doesn't seem to be enough for the studio to safely survive, so hopefully, this will work out well.

 

[Jazzy]

They had to counter somehow to MS buying Activision-Blizzard. This isn't in same scale, but taking the maker of original Xbox's killer app has a nice sting to it.

 

[Demon_skeith]

They had to counter somehow to MS buying Activision-Blizzard. This isn't in same scale, but taking the maker of original Xbox's killer app has a nice sting to it.

True, hopefully this can keep things even in the gaming world. Otherwise, the console wars really will become a thing.

 

[Ash]

They had to counter somehow to MS buying Activision-Blizzard. This isn't in same scale, but taking the maker of original Xbox's killer app has a nice sting to it.

Honestly, I don't think this particular acquisition was a counter to that move. Deals like this can take a long time to set up and finalise so they just wouldn't have had enough time. They did promise a few more purchases though so I would hope those are big enough to rival the Activision purchase by MS.

 

[Uncrowned]

Honestly, I don't think this particular acquisition was a counter to that move. Deals like this can take a long time to set up and finalise so they just wouldn't have had enough time. They did promise a few more purchases though so I would hope those are big enough to rival the Activision purchase by MS.

I can't imagine them even remotely keeping up in a buying war. Microsoft is often holding more in petty cash than the entire of the Sony corporation is worth.